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#Saudi Arabia’s new king has the fastest-growing Twitter profile in the world, in a country where officials are struggling to marry the meteoric rise in popularity of social media with attempts to maintain tight control over information.

King #Salman added more than half a million followers in the past week, outpacing the gains by popular American singer Taylor Swift or President Barack Obama , according to Social Bakers, a social-media research company. #obama#taylorswift#rihanna

Linguistic imperialism: Vladimir Putin justified his annexation of Crimea on the ground that he owed protection to Russian speakers everywhere. Our chart shows what the world might look like using Putin's innovative attitude towards borders http://econ.st/QiQE1e ﻿

The watchdog agency that monitors compliance with the global chemical weapons treaty said Tuesday it was looking into allegations that chlorine gas was used in a raid on a Syrian village earlier this month.